Father's Day Fishing

What could be more fun than taking our little kids fishing for Fathers Day!??.....a lot of things, considering they are of the ages of 3 and 1, but we did it anyway.

We decided we would go up into Moskee to a little trout pond called Spotted Tail, to get the kids outside and go fishing. Deklan really enjoys going fishing now that he has his very own Mickey Mouse fishing pole. The roads and trails getting up to Spotted Tail are quite rocky, bumpy and narrow at times, so you have to travel pretty slow and it took us almost two hours to get there. Deklan slept for part of the trip, and then woke up and proceeded to ask the many questions that 3 year olds do...."Where are we now?"....."Where are we NOW?"....."Are we almost there?"...."When are we getting to DragonTales?".."Are we still up in Whiskey (Moskee)?"...."Dad, you're a crazy driver!"......"Don't drive too close to the edge or we'll fall and and break our heads open." (He has his mother's paranoid concern for safety when driving along the edges of ravines and cliffs)

Once we got to Spotted Tail, Deklan got set up first and sat down ready to catch one of the many fish we saw jumping in the pond. He requested a bag of chips and a beer (just kidding about the beer) and he was good to go. Blakely was very excited to be out in the open with all sorts of things to explore. She was quickly set up with Cheetos and had a healthy portion of cheese flavored dirt the rest of the afternoon.

We only caught one fish the entire time we were there- which was only about an hour- but that is a long time dealing with young children toddling around water and eating dirt and rocks. We packed back up and headed out, realizing it was a lot of effort and stress to take our mere two children out of the house, but knowing it was worth it by the dirty, cheesy smiles on our kids faces. Their sleeping heads bobbled around down the rocky, bumpy roads all the way back to Sundance, and Deklan considers it 'a very fun adventure.'